Next steps

I read through Matthew 26 today. It was moving! I feel like I understand so little about God ... and yet, he loves me deeply! I see Jesus filled with sorrow yet resolve to obey his Father's will though it means death. Because of this and another email from a different friend encouraging me, I am going to take time on Monday to go to a local park or garden to journal, literally walk with God in prayer, and seek his guidance for my future. I need both the connection to and the direction from God, and I feel like I can't get either at this time unless I take some time to pray and seek the Father in a garden just as Jesus did before his death.

I leave you with the encouragement I received from my friend and Bible study this morning:

• "Wait on the Lord: be of good courage, and he shall strengthen thine heart: wait I say, on the Lord." (Psalm 27:14)
• "And I will bring the third part (a group of people) through the fire, and will refine them as silver is refined and will test them as gold is tested. They will call on My name, and I will hear and answer them. I will say, "It is My people; and they will say, "The Lord is my God."" (Zechariah 13:9)